From "Sisters" to "Comadres": Translating and Transculturating Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters

Since theNative Canadian playwright Tomson Highway imagines his plays in Cree beforetranslating them into English, his dramatic texts  are, in the words of  Gayatri Spivak, “a history of the languagein-and-as-translation. “ As he acknowledges, Highway’s English is permeatedwith the rhythm of the Cre...

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Main Author: Pilar Somacarrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Huelva 2014-12-01
Series:Canada and Beyond
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Online Access:http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/CanadaBeyond/article/view/3014